I hope to gain this by getting a job in the industry where I'm doing valuations on a daily basis.

If you latch on to the team leader at a brokerage, whether that brokerage is big or small you will have someone that can show you how to properly market and build a team as well as get leads daily.

I understand the elected officials are corrupt, the taxes are fairly high, the city has a good deal of murders occurring on a daily basis but in my experience I have found that most of the information published online and talked about on the news channels seem to be a few months behind what is actually happening on the ground.This interests me because I am a real estate agent currently in the Washington DC area and the Chicago market at this current time is similar to Washington DC in the mid-2000's before it went gangbusters and everyone was buying up places in the "nicer" parts of the city.What eventually happened was investors moved out of the safe zones and moved into the hood, the most surprising neighborhood being Trinidad, Trinidad was so bad the police blocked off the neighborhood and made you present ID at checkpoints to get into the neighborhood, true story. 5 short years later people are spending 800k on four level renovated rowhomes that are walking distance to shops and restaurants.I understand the Chicago economy is not held up by the government like the Washington DC market is, but, all the realtor blogs I've read over the last two weeks seem to indicate that certain neighborhoods are "hot" and homes are selling quickly (Avondale, Portage Park, Humboldt Park, Bucktown, Wicker Park...etc), is this still the case?

To prepare yourself use this time to educate yourself on everything possible, define your goals, make detailed obtainable goals, start big and work backwards to daily goals on how to get there.

I run into motivated sellers almost on a daily basis who haven't yet listed their homes for sale.  

Since you are paying simple daily interest, deposit your income at the beginning of the month, and pay your expenses at the end of the month therefore keeping the balance as low as possible.

I recently reinstated my license to get access to the MLS and i figured it would make me a better investor i am here to learn as much as i can i listen to the podcast daily and i catch the webinars which are so full of information.My interest is in Wholesaling so that i can build up my funds for buy and hold and rentals properties,I have learned so much on this site and ready to learn more and network with great people thanks.

I have my first two flips going right now - and I have to be honest, I’m getting a bit nervous with what seems to be a daily intensifying of global tension for the U.S. and how that hurts my end point.  

I know this is done on a daily basis, but want some hard truth to if this would be a goal for someone with more experience than someone that has never done anything like this before. 

Is it more convenient to your daily activities?